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It didn't take long for guitarist/singer Henry Hall, drummer Robby Caplan and bassist Evan Low to find each other after arriving on the Wesleyan University campus four years ago. Within the first couple of months of the semester, they'd formed Grand Cousin and began playing around the Middletown campus, which has gained a reputation in recent years as an indie-rock incubator of sorts (MGMT and Das Racist are two high-profile groups to come out of Wesleyan). "I knew when I came here that music was going to be a big part of my experience," said Low. "We were lucky to run into Henry, who showed us a lot of songs he wrote in high school. That's why we very quickly...

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